Director

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Dr. Pedram Hassanzadeh

Associate Professor, University of Chicago
Department of Geophysical Sciences
Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
Director: AI for Climate (AICE) Initiative, Data Science Institute
PI of the CSSI-GW Project
Co-PI of the DataWave Project
Associate Editor, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (AGU journal)
Co-editor, Weather and Climate Dynamics (EGU journal)
Editorial Board, Environmental Research: Climate

Email: pedramh (at) uchicago.edu
CV: Hassanzadeh_CV_2022
Math Genealogy of our group: link

Twitter: @turbulentjet

Education & Appointments:

  • Director: AI for Climate Initative (AICE), DSI, 2024-present
  • Affiliate Faculty, Data Science Institute (DSI), University of Chicago, 2024-present
  • Associate Professor (with tenure), University of Chicago, 2024-present
  • Associate Professor (with tenure), Rice University, 2023
  • Assistant Professor, Rice University, 2016-2023
  • Visiting Staff: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program, WHOI, 2016-present
  • Faculty Associate: Baker College, Rice University, 2017-2023
  • Associate: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 2016
  • Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 2015-2016
  • Ziff Environmental Fellow: Center for the Environment, Harvard University, 2013-2015
  • PhD: Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 2013
  • MA: Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, 2012
  • Fellow: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program, WHOI, 2012
  • MS: Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2007
  • BS: Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, 2005

Honors & Awards:

  • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2021
  • Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research (ONR), 2020
  • Early-Career Research Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences Gulf Research Program, 2018
  • Ziff Environmental Fellowship, Harvard University Center for the Environment, 2013–2015
  • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2012
  • NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2009–2011
  • Outstanding Preliminary Examination Award, ME Department, UC Berkeley, 2009
  • Jonathan Laitone Memorial Scholarship, ME Department, UC Berkeley, 2009
  • International Graduate Student Award, University of Waterloo, 2005–2007